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CASH CARRIER APPARATUS.

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CASH CARRIER APPARATUS.

No. 399,457. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

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NELSON XVEEKS, JR., OF LONG ISLAND CITY, NEV YORK.

CASH-CARRIER APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 399,457, dated March12, 1889.

Application filed September 5, 1888l Serial No. 284,605. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, NELSON VEEKS, Jr., of Long Island City, in thecounty of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedCash-Carrier Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

The invention relates to that class of cashcarriers in which t-he cashhold ers or pockets are automatically taken up by and discharged from acarriage.

The object of the invention is to so improve cash-carrier apparatus asto simplify and make stable their construction, and to eii'ect thecomplete independence of the several salesstations, conveying thecash-pockets to and from each station by a single carriage without theinterference with or dependence on the cash-pockets of the otherstations.

To this end the invention consists in the peculiar colistruction andcombination of the different portions of the apparatus, as hereinafterparticularly described, and defined in the claims, a prominent featurebeing the location of the station devices with respect to the path oftravel of a comparted carriage.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthe specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure l. is a broken plan view of a cashcarrier apparatus embodying myinvent-ion. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of a station and thecarriage thereat carrying a cashpocket, a second pocket being indicatedby dotted lines in position to be taken up bythe carriage. Fig. 3 is anend view of the carriage and a cash-pocket, the track being shown insection. Fig. i is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the carriage online .r a, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a broken end view otl the cashiers desk,the track being shown in section. Fig. 6 is a broken end view of one ofthe stations, and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the cash holder orpocket used in connection with my improved cash-carrier apparatus.

The track A is formed, preferably, of angleirons a a, formed in acontinuous circuit, as shown, the tracks being suspended from theceiling or other support in any suitable manner and braced and supportedat each station and the cashiers desk by boards u. Rods A', extendingfrom the ceiling or other support, serve to support a basket orreceptacle, B. The receptacle B, of which one is located at each stationand at the easl1-desk, may be of any desired form, and may bc supportedbeneath the track in any suitable manner.

The carriage C of my improved apparatus is designed to operate inconjunction with a peculiar form of cash holder or pocket, D, speciallyadapted to the carriage, a peculiar and novel system of trips, to behereinafter described, being' provided for the automatic collection ofthe pockets by the carriage and for the automa-tic discharge of. saidpockets into the baskets B.

The carriage C is provided with hangers C', having inwardly-bent upperen ds, adapted to suspend the carriage from the track rails or irons a.,and with an arm, C?, formed with an eye by which it is adapted to besecured to a continuouslytraveling cord or cable, A plate, c, extendsacross the carriage, O, from one hanger C to the other, and at the underside of the platee the carriage is divided into a series of open-endedcompartments or cells, c', which extend longitudinally of the carriageand whose sides and top are or may be closed, the bottom of the carriagebeing formed with a longitudinal slot, c2, foraccommodating thecashpocket., presently to be described. Depending from the carriagebetween each compartment c' is a series ot' plates, c3, which preventlateral play of the cash-pockets and steady the same in the carriage.

The pockets D are formed with a hinged or Swingin g side or cover, D,which is held closed by any suitable catch device, d, and above the topor back edge of the carriage is supported a head, D2, a web or neck, d',uniting said head to the body of the pocket. The head D2 is adapted toenter one of the compartments c of carriage C and be supported therein,the web d lying` then in slot c2 of said compartment, as shown clearlyin Fig. The cash-pocket D is also formed with a longitudinally-extendingtubular socket, D3, by means of which the pocket is temporarily held onthe horizontally-ranging arm E of a standard or statt, E, one of whichis located TOO at each station in the path of one of the com partments cof the carriage. Below the arm E each staff E is provided with clampsE2, between which the body of the cash-pocket D is received, and thesaid pocket is thus firmly held to be taken up by the carriage in theymanner particularly described hereinafter.

The standards E, which l will term the take-up standards, are adjustably secured to a fixed rigid cross-piece, E3, which is suitablysupported in front of each station in the apparatus, as, for instance,by supportingrods E?. The cross-piece E3 is formed with a slot, e, and ascrew, e', passed through said slot and through the standard E', securesthe standard E at any desired point along the cross-piece E3, to bringthe said standard into the path of that compartment c which has beenassigned to the station at which the standard is located.

As .the carriage C approaches the standard E, if there be a cash-pocketon the same, its head D2 will lie in the path of its correspondingcompartment c of the carriage, and as the latter. passes over the pocketthe end of thev head D2 will strike the downwardly-ex tending end of aspring latch or retainer, C4, which is pivotally secured on the top ofthe carriage C, a series of said latches being provided, one for eachcompartment C, and so located on said carriage that the downwardlyextending rear end of the latch will normally effect a closure of the rear endof the carriage-compartment. As the latch C4 strikes the head D2 of thecash-pocket, it forces the latter off its statt' E, and it is carried tothe eashierss desk to be deposited in the basket or receptacle thereat.'

After the cash-pocket has entered the carriage its accidental escapetherefrom is prevented by a gravity-gate, ci, Fig. 4, that is hinged atthe entrance or forward end of each compartment c.

The latches or retainers C'l are pi voted about centrally of theirlength, and beneath their upwardly-bent ends a spring, ci", is placed,

which normally acts to elevate the raised or upwardly-extending ends andmaintain the downwardly-extending en ds over th e rear ends of thecompartments.

To the under side of the boards c of track A, at each station, issecured the tri p-block F, formed with double or reverse bevels on itsunder side, and as the carriage C passes under the said trip-block thelatter depresses the upwardly-extending forward end of that retainer C"which governs the compartment c assigned to the station, and as theforward end of the retainer is depressed the downwardly-bent rear end ofthe retainer is raised, allowing the cash-pocket D to be ejected.

The ejection of the pocket effected by a trip, G, in the form of a postor standard projecting upward in front of the basket B, and againstwhich the end of the body of the cashpocket strikes.

The trip-block F, take-up E, and trip-stand ard G of each stat-ion arerelatively so arranged that they will not act upon or be actedv upon bythe compartments c and retainers C4 assigned to other stations. Eachtripstandard G, take-'up standard E, and trip-- having to or not havingto take up or deposit a pocket at any particular station.

Thus it may take up or deposit a pocket, or do both, at one stationwhile carrying a pocket to a station beyond, or carrying other pocketsvfro 1n other sta-tions to the cashiers desk.

The cashiers desk or station, Fig. 5, differs .from the sales-stationsonly in being provided with a full complement of trip and take-updevices, one complete set for each station. The trip-block F of thecashiers desk may be one continuous block extending completely across,as shown, or it Vmay be of separate blocks, as desired, and instead of atrip-standard Afor each compartment, it may have a bar, G', acrossinfront of the basket, as shown, against which the pockets will all astrike and be ejected from the carriage.

In the plan, Fig. l, l have shown two salesst-ations only and thecashiers station; but in practice it will be understood there may be anynumber of station s, and the carriage C, I have shown adapted to sixstations; but it may, of course, be constructed to operate in connectionwith any number of stations by increasing or di minishing `the number ofcompartments and accompanying trip and takeup devices.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a carrier apparatus, the combination, with a comparted carriagehaving a series of latches or retainers each normally effecting aclosure of a single compartment, of separate trips at each station inthe path of the carriage, the trip of each station being out of linewith those of the remaining' stations and in the line of a singlecompartment of the carriage, substantially as described.

2. In a carrierapparatus, acarriage divided longitudinally into sectionscorresponding to the different stations and a series of latches each ofwhich normally effects a closure of a single section of the carriage, incombination with a trip-block at each station in the path of one of saidlatches, a trip -standard 'in alignment with said trip-block and acting'to eject a pocket or holder as the said block IOO IIO

trips the latch, and an arm for temporarily holding' the pockets to betaken up by the carriage, the trips and take-ups of each station beingWholly out of line with the corresponding devices ot the remainingstat-ions and in line with a section of the carriage, substantially asdescribed.

il. A carrier apparatus comprising a carriage and a cash pocket orholder therefor, the carriage being divided into longitudinalcompartments and longitudinally slotted at the bottom Wall, and thepocket formed with a head and adapted to said compartment to lie WhollyWi thin the plane thereof, and thus not project into the plane of theremaining compartments ot' the carriage, substantially as described.

1t. In a carrier amaaratus in which the earl 'riage automatically takesup and discharges the cash pockets or holders, a take-up and earl riermechanism, comprisin a carriage divided longitudinally intocompartments, cash pockets or holders formed with a socket and havin ahead fitting the said compartments, to lie Wholly Within the planethereof, and an arm at each station adapted to be received in the socketot' the cash-pocket, substantially as described. l

5. The combimition, with the carriage f formed with compartments, ot'latches or retrainers pivotally mounted thereon. and normally eliectinga closure of one end ot' said compartments, substantially as described.l

(i. The combination, with the comparted carriage, otf latches orretainers pivoted thereon and normally etl'eeting a closure of one end lot' each compartment, and automatieally closi ing gates at the oppositeends of each compartment, substantially as described.

7. In a carrier apparatus, acarriage divided longitudinally intocompartments, the bottom Wall of which is slotted longitudinally, andguide-plates or flanges extending therefrom between the said pockets, incombination with cash holders or pockets provided with heads fitting insaid compartments and Whose bodies it between said tianges,substantially as described.

S. As a new article ot' manufact-ure, a cashpocket for cash-carriers,formed with a head by which it is held in the carriage and with a socketby which it is held on the take-up arm, substantially as described.

9. A carrier apparatus comprising an endless track, a cash-station, anda series of salesstations, baskets held below each of said stations, acomparted carriage on said track pro- Vid ed with latches normallyciifecting a closure ot` the one end of said compartments, a tripblockat each station in the path of one of said latches and a trip-standardfor the cashpockets adapted to eject the same from the carriagessimultaneously with the tripping of the latches, a tak e-up standard ateach station provided with an arm for temporarily holding thecash-pockets, and a full complement of trips and take-ups at theeashiers desk representing each of the salesstations, substantially asdescribed.

NELSON WEEKS, JR.

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